Quotes about Fear
And, Father, most of all, you taught Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught Can thwart, and that it moves where truth And courage speak, and neither youth Nor age can hinder its success, But only fear and quietness.
— John Piper
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
— John Wesley
Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.
— John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
— John Wesley
And those who cherished the fear of God and lived in harmony with his will continued to increase in knowledge and wisdom throughout their life.
— Ellen White
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
— Barack Obama
How do we develop the courage to walk in the dark if we are never asked to practice?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver